Nugae Criticae: Occasional Papers Written at the SeasideEdmonston and Douglas, 1862 - 492 páginas |
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... morality and our digestion . We have built up pasteboard walls between us and the desolate and unpeopled un- known which lies beyond the rim of our life . With these laws , traditions , religions - we fence out the infinite . " Do not ...
... morality and our digestion . We have built up pasteboard walls between us and the desolate and unpeopled un- known which lies beyond the rim of our life . With these laws , traditions , religions - we fence out the infinite . " Do not ...
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... moral or intel- lectual fixtures . ' He does not care to molest them ; to deny is to him more unpleasing than to dogmatise . Can I discover whether it be true or false ? though it be false , it makes the world at least more habitable ...
... moral or intel- lectual fixtures . ' He does not care to molest them ; to deny is to him more unpleasing than to dogmatise . Can I discover whether it be true or false ? though it be false , it makes the world at least more habitable ...
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... moral lesson ! " You see what the love of liberty , what the hatred of despotism , costs . This is what you make of resistance to lawful authority , of rebellion against the powers that be , not apparently a very paying business . " So ...
... moral lesson ! " You see what the love of liberty , what the hatred of despotism , costs . This is what you make of resistance to lawful authority , of rebellion against the powers that be , not apparently a very paying business . " So ...
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... moral lesson . The world's history is not a wanton carnival , a mere blindfolded dance of death . Upon this conscious- ness has arisen what is somewhat pompously de- nominated " the philosophy of history . " It is THE SPHINX . 103.
... moral lesson . The world's history is not a wanton carnival , a mere blindfolded dance of death . Upon this conscious- ness has arisen what is somewhat pompously de- nominated " the philosophy of history . " It is THE SPHINX . 103.
Página 104
... a nation cannot be kept alive any more than a man can . Some plain moral rules certainly , which it is an abuse of language to elevate into a " philosophy of history , " are now commonly recognized by thinking 104 THE SPHINX .
... a nation cannot be kept alive any more than a man can . Some plain moral rules certainly , which it is an abuse of language to elevate into a " philosophy of history , " are now commonly recognized by thinking 104 THE SPHINX .
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Página 15 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Página 146 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Página 246 - The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea; And, musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free; For, standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave.
Página 325 - Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow. Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
Página 288 - In the white curtain, to and fro, She saw the gusty shadow sway. But when the moon was very low, And wild winds bound within their cell, The shadow of the poplar fell Upon her bed, across her brow. She only said, " The night is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said, " I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!
Página 292 - All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past. Let us alone. What pleasure can we have To war with evil? Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave?
Página 177 - Leave thou thy sister when she prays Her early heaven, her happy views ; Nor thou with shadow'd hint confuse A life that leads melodious days. Her faith thro' form is pure as thine, Her hands are quicker unto good.
Página 166 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Página 414 - Contemplating Spain, such as our ancestors had known her, I resolved that if France had Spain, it should not be Spain ' with the Indies.' I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old.
Página 318 - The great problem of the shifting relation between passion and duty is clear to no man who is capable of apprehending it : the question whether the moment has come in which a man has fallen below the possibility of a renunciation that will carry any efficacy, and must accept the sway of a passion against which he had struggled as a trespass, is one for which we have no master-key that will fit all cases.